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Thanks so much, those of you who took this survey. It runs through the first week of January, and I am specifically interested in the perspective of folks on this forum (e.g. city planners and builders). If you are bored over the holidays and have a few minutes, I hope you might take a few minutes to provide feedback.

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Whereas Boston has chowder, Philadelphia has hoagies/cheesesteaks and Baltimore has crab cakes, Detroit has a hot dog named after a place in another city that no tourist actually thinks of as a Michigan thing. And a bunch of dead, proprietary brands like Sanders and Bill Knapps.

A concerted effort should be made to change the name of the Coney Island to something that reflects MIchigan. Maybe call it the Belle Isle? (I thought about "Boblo Island," but Belle Isle has the advantage of still being open to the public and -- for all its failings -- still being a beautiful park.) This can happen gradually, with parenthesis below menu items for a decade or two (first with the new name in parenthesis, then with the old name in small type later on), so as not to make the too-much-too-soon mistake that New Coke and Bill Knapp's both famously made during their rebrandings.

Speaking of Bill Knapp's, my earlier critique has a caveat: We can still revive some of the dead brands in a more sustainable form. Somebody needs to get permission, then crowd-fund a Bill Knapps food cart that sells basic favorites outside of one of the big stadiums. Good bets are Michigan Stadium, Comerica Park, Spartan Stadium ... maybe even something a little smaller like the Whitecaps' park. People would totally go nuts over this, and it would build the brand without requiring any staffing during slow times. I would do this, but I'm up by Traverse City these days.

And let's not count out Pastie remixes with more Michigan-specific ingredients. Adding a bunch of cherries or taziki (to furrther regionalize and get rid of the dryness) and making a push to sell more of them in the Detroit area (maybe at that BK cart, among other places) could go a long way toward giving Detroit/Michigan a truly famous specialty food.

Anyhow, please add to the list above. I can't wait to see the fun ideas people come up with.

My colleagues have been busy putting together this resource on 10 quirks that only Shreveport natives would understand. They seem to think it's hot stuff, so I had to get a second opinion. Check it out and let me know how they did: